Improved gas-generator



Situated' PATRICK-- KELLY, vor DAYTON, OHIO,v

Latas Patent No. 92,317, camz .hay o, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentand making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK KELLY, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery, and State ot' Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gas-Generators; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of thc same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making part of this yspecilicationLin whichv Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a plan view with thegasometcrsV removed.4 Y

Figure 3 is a horizontal section, and Figures`4, 5, and 6, are elevations of the gasometers.

The same letters in all the iigures indicate the same parts.

My improvements relate to apparatus for carburetting atmospheric air, by passing it through gasoline, to make an illuminating-gas, and

My improvement consists in a better' construction 'and arrangement otparts Oftheapparatus.

In the annexed drawings- A is a tank formed by two walls, c andc, having between them a narrow space to be filled with water to receive the gasometer A.

ai is a plateextcnding across the top of the cylinder a', so as to make the gasometer air-tight. i

'lhe tank B is constructed, like the tank A, of the parts b, b, and b2, to receive the gasometer B'.

A pipe, K, opens through the plate b, and extending downwards through the cylinder b, passes from under the tank 1l, and thence is carried under the tank A, through the plate ai, opening underthe gasometer A, being covered by a flap-valve, A2, Opening only upwards.

A similar valve, B2, covers a hole in the plate b2, opening into the air below the plate l. The space between the walls` a and e', and b and b, being lilled with Y water, and the gason'ieter being placed therein and at the bottom, by raisingr said gasometer a vacuum would be formed under it, to till which the air will rush in through the valve B', which opens. upwards by the pressure ot' the external atmosphere.

When the gasometcr'B has been raised nearly'to the surface ofthe water, the cords by which it is raised having been released, its gravity will force the air confined under it down through the pipe K, and

- upwards through the valve Ai into the gasometer A.

By successively raising the gasometer, it may be made to lill the larger gasometer A.

The pipe 1) opens into the air-chamber of. the gasometer A, through the plate a?, and extending down@ wards, havinga cock therein to regulate the discharge, it opens into the chamber E. This-is an air-tight triangularchamber, to be lilled or partly iilled with gasoline, the chamber being, however, first charged with a small quantity Ot a solution of muriatie acid and zinc, to i'ornl a bed upon which the gasoline rests.

The chamber is divided into two or more compartments, and thc pipe D is extended down to the bottom of the first of the series, and'the air discharged into the bed of muriatic acid and zinc, whence, rising 'l through the gasoline, it is, in its passage, carburetted partially. f y

The compartments are connected by a bent pipe, `F, one end of which opens into the top ofthe first compartment, and the other extends to the bottom of the second compartment, where the partially-carburetted air is again discharged into the bed, to risc through the gasoline in said chamber, by which means it willrbc suflciently carbnretted for ordinary use.

The number of the carburetting-chambers may, however, if desired, be-multiplied in the same manner by a-continuous series of compartments nd connection-pipes. 1

The intensity of' the illumination of the gas may be increased by first introducingwithin said chambers n1 uriatic acid, and then adding the gasoline, andnall y putting in-as much zinc as will create a slight vvapor while being dissolved. rlhc pipe G conducts the carburetted air or gas fron the last chamber of the series, and delivers it into a gasometer C', placed in a tank, C.

A pipe, H, connected with the pipe G, leads under thel pipe D transversely in a gas-burner, by means of which the air passing through the pipe vD may be heatedv as it passes from the gasometer.

lhc waste heat from the gas-burner, opening into the space below the plate a2, will tend to warm the air inthe gasometer'A. Byheating the air, its carburetting will be facilitated.

lhe pipe I connects with the gas-pipes, through which the gas is carried away to be burned. This connecting with the pipe G' may be used in connection with or independently of the gasomcter C', which is not necessary, but may be conveniently used for storing Ithe illuminating-gas.

Vhat I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

`An apparatus for carburetting air, combining in its construction the following groups of elements: First, a gasometer for pumping air with inductionva-lve and eduction-pipe;

Second, a storing-gasometer, with an induction-valve' and eduction-pipe. y

Third, a series of carbure tting-chambers, containing the chemicals, connected by pipes arranged to carry the air through such chemicals; and

,l Fourth, a gas-pipe, through which the gas is carried l for use, and having a branch-pipe with gas-jet, ar-

ranged to heat the air in the pipe I), said parts being arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I havev signed my naine to this specification, in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses. A

PATRICK KELLY.

Witnesses:

DAVID MEYER, i SOLOMON BOOKWALTER. 

